Are you wondering how to keep the “entrepreneurial fire” going as your company grows larger?

Successfully transforming from an entrepreneurial business to a middle market company, and on to a large company is a leadership challenge often filled with “growing pains.” How can you add people, processes, and systems that can keep you even more responsive and innovative than when your company was a smaller entrepreneurial business?

This week we’re sharing a few of the most critical lessons we’ve learned on this issue from our own consulting experiences and from CEOs who have successfully made this transformation.

We discuss:

The #1 secret for keeping your organization on the entrepreneurial track as you grow

The most often overlooked and/or underestimated aspects of culture that impact staying entrepreneurial

Three steps to overcome “growing pains” and stay responsive and innovative

How did a new CEO navigate leadership succession — and transform cultural norms?

Listen now to our conversation with Sabrina Parsons as she tells the story of her transition to CEO of Palo Alto Software, and shares how she has been leading a change of corporate norms not only in her own company but in the technology industry as a whole, and even in the world.

We discuss:

The keys to her successful transition to CEO of the company he father founded

How her passion to “treat employees as people first” led to a transition of cultural norms

Two ideas you can immediately use for creating new beneficial norms in your company

Listen to Episode 15:

How can you accelerate gaining trust of the people who matter most to your company’s success?

One of the questions business leaders ask us frequently is, “How can we accelerate trust among our stakeholders?” Clearly, building strong trust, and building it quickly, can go a long way towards accelerating successful business outcomes.

We explore the art and science of this issue with returning guest Judith E. Glaser, CEO of Benchmark Communications, Inc. and Chairman and Co-Founder of the CreatingWe Institute. She is also the award winning author of the best selling books Creating WE and Conversational Intelligence: How Great Leaders Build Trust and Get Extraordinary Results.

We discuss:

The paradox of building trust

What to do to boost trust in the first 90 days

Two ideas you can immediately use to dramatically accelerate trust in your company

Successful transformation takes more than a great strategy and execution plan.

In response to listener requests, we’re sharing a few of the most critical lessons we’ve learned from our own and our clients’ experiences about what makes the most difference for getting successful outcomes during major company transformations (such as M&A, reorganizing, entering new markets, and changes of leadership). We discuss:

The #1 deciding factor in the success of any major transformation

Finding and overcoming hidden resistance to change

3 steps you can take to dramatically accelerate successful transformation

What are the keys to having top talent line up to join your company?

You don’t have to be Google or Apple to have a company reputation that magnetically attracts the top talent you need, or a culture that keeps employees engaged and at peak productivity. In our conversation with Roberta Matuson, president of Matuson Consulting, we explore the critical forces that make it easier to build the highly talented, productive, and enthusiastic workforce you crave.

We discuss:

The concept of “Talent Magnetism,” and why attraction trumps recruitment every time

What today’s workers really want from their employers

Specific steps you can take to begin to make your company more magnetic for top talent

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